Chapter 801 Silent Night
The arrival of this battle group not only greatly increased the strike force of the USS, but also brought new aircraft and pilots! In the last battle, the USS America lost more than a dozen A-7 attack aircraft. Before the departure of the USS Carl Vinson, ten A-7 attack aircraft flew from the US Naval Air Force Base and landed on the USS Carl Vinson. When the two sides approached, these aircraft would take off and fly to the USS America.
Although the USS Carl Vinson is also fully loaded, there is still room on the deck.
On TV, you can see that every time a U.S. aircraft carrier is deployed, it is filled with carrier-based aircraft, as if the Americans are deliberately showing off their military power. In fact, this is a last resort for the Americans because their hangar under the deck can’t hold all the aircraft!
For example, regarding the number of aircraft that the Nimitz-class can carry, some say seventy, some say eighty, and some say one hundred. These are all general numbers. After all, a giant aircraft carrier with a displacement of one hundred thousand tons has only one hangar floor underneath, with an area of 208*33 square meters. With this amount of space, even if the United States eliminated the Tomcat in later generations and only had the Bug left, it could only cram in 36 aircraft at most. If it was full, it would be troublesome to dispatch them.
Now, the American Tomcat is still in service. This type of aircraft takes up more space and usually carries 26 aircraft, two helicopters and four lifeboats. The rest are all placed on the deck.
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The remaining aircraft are placed on the deck, and those that enter the hangar are mainly fighter jets for maintenance. American fighter jets are already accustomed to open-air storage on aircraft carriers.
Therefore, it does not matter if there are a few more planes, they will just take up more space on the deck. For example, the bow deck can be filled with fighter planes, even a hundred can be loaded, and for take-off, the only thing left is the catapult on the angled deck.
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Now, the Carl Vinson is in this state, helping the America to deliver new A-7 attack aircraft and pilots to make up for their losses. This makes the deck of the Carl Vinson very full. The America goes north to greet them in order to receive these fighters earlier. In this way, the Carl Vinson can free up the deck, adjust its status, and prepare to enter the strike state to wash away the previous shame with blood!
The route to the north requires passing by the Argentine oil platforms hundreds of kilometers away. To be safe, a cruiser heading north sent a helicopter to search here during the day today, but found nothing unusual.
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So far, the Soviet Navy has not joined the war, but some Soviet weapons must have reached the hands of the Argentine army! If the Soviet Union takes out those big killers, the US aircraft carrier formation will still be in danger!
The helicopters during the day come to search for oil tankers to see if supersonic anti-ship missiles have been deployed. Those big guys with a range of 500 kilometers are the nightmare of the US Navy.
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Fortunately, those were ordinary oil platforms, and some had already produced oil! This made the US top brass even more anxious. This battle had to end as soon as possible!
Although there are some concerns, there is no need to mobilize too many troops! The precious E-2 must be kept in good condition and saved for the next offensive operation because of the frequent launch of early warning aircraft. Moreover, it is dark now! Even if the Soviets have synthetic aperture reconnaissance satellites, it is not easy to detect their own maritime formations!
So, don’t be too nervous. Sending out two carrier-based aircraft for air patrol is enough!
A huge battleship was cruising on the sea, with lights flashing on its deck and navigation lights shining in the distance. Those were the two cruising Tomcat fighters returning!
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Night takeoffs and landings are all done by the most experienced pilots! Even on the USS America, only half of the Tomcat pilots are qualified for night takeoffs and landings. Now, the two attacking planes are obviously flown by the most experienced pilots. The opponent's landing is simply done in one go! With a chic glide path, the wheels touch the deck, hook the first arresting cable, and stop just like that!
On the bow deck, two Tomcat fighters of the second wave were also being catapulted into the air, with white steam flying past. The two Tomcat fighters left the deck of the aircraft carrier within a few seconds of each other.
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Inside the tall bridge, Captain Harold had fallen asleep in his room. He slept peacefully. It was a normal night!
On the sea, the huge roar can be heard from far away. However, in the vast ocean, no matter how far the distance is, it is nothing.
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Only five meters above the sea surface, the Flower-Tailed Pigeon No. 1 was flying steadily.
As the driver, George Colombo, who was holding the joystick, felt sweat slowly oozing out of the palms of his hands.
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When he received the order to take off, he operated the ground effect vehicle, taxied, took off, and flew at the maximum cruising speed at an altitude of five meters above the sea.
This is the first flight training, and he is about to go out! While he is nervous, he is also proud in his heart! Although this thing flies like a plane, its attack power is definitely like a warship! The six supersonic anti-ship missiles on the top are the weapons to attack aircraft carriers!
At the same time, other people were not idle either. As the captain of this aircraft, Machestan needed to coordinate and plan this attack!
The six anti-ship missiles on the top have completed self-inspection. All six missiles are in good condition. Now, the most critical thing is to find the American aircraft carrier formation!
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How to find it? Before setting off, the information obtained from the oil platform was just a guess of the approximate location of the American aircraft carrier formation! The last time the British aircraft carrier formation was attacked, because the British did not have early warning aircraft, the area that could effectively control the sea was limited. Therefore, the Soviet Navy's aircraft carrier formation was hundreds of kilometers away. It monitored the British Navy through early warning aircraft and directly notified the Argentine side. The target information was very accurate.
And now, facing the American aircraft carrier formation, the Soviet aircraft carrier formation has temporarily retreated, and can only rely on itself to search for the American aircraft carrier formation!
How to rely on it? It is the upper part of the vertical tail of the aircraft, the spherical thing, and the radar inside! This is the MINERAL-ME radar system used in conjunction with the Sunburn anti-ship missile, codenamed Music Station in the West!
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The radars equipped on ordinary warships will not search the sea more than 50 kilometers, while the anti-ship missiles on warships have a range of hundreds of kilometers. For example, China's C801 uses a rocket engine, just like the Exocet missile, with a range of dozens of kilometers. The C-802 uses a turbojet engine instead, with a range increased to hundreds of kilometers. However, the warship's radar will not increase accordingly. The earth is round, and the curvature determines this distance, which cannot be changed.
Therefore, if the C-802 is launched, the warship will need to launch a ship-borne helicopter to provide relay guidance for the missile.
The Exocet missile also uses this solution, as does the Harpoon missile. However, the Soviet Navy's missiles did not adopt this solution because they had beyond-visual-range radar!